Hillel Shur, a Soviet Jewish activist who was arrested in August, 1970, has been released from the Potma labor camp after serving a two-year sentence, the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry said today. Glenn Richter, SSSJ coordinator, said the SSSJ had received that information from Rabbi Moses Sacks of Minneapolis who, Richter said, had a telephone conversation with several Russian Jews. Sacks told the SSSJ that Shur, an engineer, was seen in the Moscow synagogue last Saturday.
Shur, a native of Leningrad, was convicted in June, 1971 in Kishinev and has since been assigned to live in Volkhov, a small town outside Leningrad. Rabbi Sacks also said that four Jews were arrested outside the Moscow synagogue on Saturday but there was no information available as to their names, the reasons for their arrest and their current situation. The rabbi also said he had been informed that Leonid Yoffe had been released from the reserves after serving two months. One of the 14 Jewish activists who hid themselves last May to avoid callup to army service, Yoffe was caught after he came out of hiding.
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